#man

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.' ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#been #bit #concerned #embarrassing #end

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#europe #his #image #man #metaphysical

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#defined #doubt #fanatic #man #psychological

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #either #hang #human #human beings

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consciously #doubt #fanatic #man #over

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#bullying #ends #everyone #good #human

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #capacity #granted #human #human beings

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#forget #human #make #other #people